Watering-trough.



PATENTED 'APR. 21, 1908.

A. 0.. MICHAEL. WATERING THOUGH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25, 1907.

n1 STATES ANCEAL 0. MICHAEL, OF FLORA, INDIANA ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF. TOWILLIAM B.

, FISHER, OF FLORA, INDIANA. A

' "vide a drinking ferred to. I

by means ofYthe; construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which tion, a portion ofthe side being broken away to illustrate theinteriorthereof. Fig.- 2 is a through the upper portion of the tank.Fig. i 4 is a v'erticalsection on the line 4'4 of 'Fig. 2 looking the;direction indicated by the. r arrows. 1

' 1 designates a'water tank, the 0 bars The inwardly extending flangesof v water --tank,' and for providing means for replacing the water'fedfromithe tank by air of which converge toward the shown in,F-ig. 1 inorder to shade the water 'with' flanges ,3 bent down over the-upperedgeWATERING-TROUGH. i

To all whom it may concern: Q

Be it known that I, ANCEAL C. MICHAEL, a citizen of the United States,residing, at Flora, in the county of Carroll and State of'Indiana, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Watering-Troughs, of whichthefollowing isa specification.

o This invention relates to watering troughs designed for the" purposeof en plylng fresh water to poult and small stoc and one of theprinclpal o %'ects of the'same is to ro- I ountain of that type w 'c'hautomatically discharges water from a tank 1 toa trough and maintains aconstant supply ofwater-in the trough, in which rovision will be madefor conveniently re ling the to support th'e'flow; Another 'bject of myinvention is to provide a water tank of such contour as will shade thewater trough, V i QStill another object-of my invention is to simlifyand to render more eflicient in use, drirfising fountains of thecharacter re- These and other objects may be attained Figure' 1 is {a.side elevation. ofv awatering trough made inaccordance with myinvencentral vertical section" on the line 2-2 of ig. 1. Fig. 3gis adetail section taken Referring to the drawing for a more specificdescription of my invention the numeral ,p ositesides ottom as trough.The top ,2 of the tank is provided of the tankl and secure'd on theupper sur face of the top 2 is a housing 4p rov1 ed with a centralopening "5. The bottom 6' ofithe tank has its outer edge bent. aroundthe outwardly turned flange of'the'tank'body and to secure said bottomto thetank an angle plate 7 is" rovided,i;saidanglepl'ate beingconnected y fasternngs 8 to the supporting Specification of LettersPatent. 1 Application filed September 25, 1907. Serial No. 894,535. I 4P. i

Y the tank to-the required height.

Patented April 21,1908.

the angle plate are secured to thebars 9 means of the fastenings 10,said fastenings passing through the outwardly turned flanges on the body1 and the outer edges ofthe bottom 6 as shown more clearly in Fig. 2.

The bars 9 are supported upon cross bars 11. Connected centrally to thetop 2 is a depending tube 12, the lower end 13' of which is open and isdisposed within a cup 14 secured .to the bottom 6 and dependingtherefrom.

The cup 14 has an upwardly extendin nozzle 15. A stopper 16 connected tothe ower end of the rod 17 closes the nozzle 15. Connected to the upperend of the rod 17 is a lever'18, said lever having a member 19pivota-lly connected to a bar 18 and pivoted to-a cross bar 20 supportedu on the top 2 of the tank. By swingin the ever-into the positlon shownin the 'otted lines in Fig. 2 the stclpper 16 moves outward from thenozzle 15. tube 21 surrounds the tube 12, the u per end of said tube 21terminating at a si ht distance below;the top 2 of the tank. he lowerend of'the tube 21 is bent inwardly at 22 ;and ,.'secured.to the tube12. .An outlet tube 23 is secured between the tubes 12\and 21, said tubeextendi'ngthrough the cup 14 to admit air to the tank 1. The trough 24is -provided'with cross slats"'25 and the outer edges of the trough arebent downward and doubled as at 26, said flanges26 resting onthe'crossbars '11.' As shown in Fig. 4in dotted lines the trough '24fisremovable so that it can be readil cleaned. The operation 0 my inventionmay be briefly described as follows: When it is de-' sired to'fillthetank 1, the stopper 16 is drawn upward by thelever 18, the water thenbeing poured into the opening 5 will pass down the tube 12 into the cup14 and thence u' ward in en the stopper 16 is moved downward in thenozzle 15'the water will overflow the topof said'nozzle anddischarge-into the trough 24; -When the water in the trough 24 rises toa point above the lower end of the tube. 23, air to support the flow ofwater will be shut-off and hence thewater in trough 24 will only reach apoint just above the lower end ofsaid tube 23. When the water is usedfrom the trou h 24 air entering the tube 23 will pass up to t e upperend of the tank'and thus permit water to ow overthe topofthe'nozzle 15into said trough 1 From the foregoing it may be'obviousthat a devicemadein accordance with my invention will feed water automatically fromthe tank to the trough and that the trough may be'readily removedwhenever it is required to clean the. same.

Havin thus fully described the invention what is c aimed as new is:

1. A drinking fountain, comprisin a water tank, a tube extendingdownward rom the top of the tank, an air tube surrounding saiddownwardly extendi'n tube and connected thereto at its lower en a cupsecured to the bottom of the tank and provided with a nozzle, an airtube communicating with the first mentioned air tube and extending throuh said cup and a removable trough under t e bottom of the tank.

, vided with a nozzle, a rod a stopper con nected to said rod extendingthrough said tube and said rod provided at its upper end with and:ocentric operating lever. 3. A

' tank, an inner tube connected to an extendnozzle, an air tu inkingfountain, comprisin awater ing from the top of said tank, an air tubesecured to and surrounding said inner tube and terminatingat its upperend immediately below the top of the tank, a cup secured to the 'bottom.of the tank, said cup having an upwardly extending nozzle, a stopperfitted to said nozzle means for operating said sto per to open and closesaid nozzle, a removab e water trough below said cup, an air tubecommunicating with the first mentioned air tube and extendin throughsaid cu 4. In a drinking ountain, the com ination of a filling tube, atank, an air tube secured to and surrounding said filling tube, a' cuprovided with a nozzle, a stopper, means or actuating said sto per toopen and close said be communicating with the first mentioned air tubeand extending through said on and a removable water trough below saicup.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANCEAL C. MICHAEL,

I Witnesses".

ALVIE B. Honzn, CHARLES E. SMITH.

